Viewing ofReference Material
Art students and others conducting research are welcome to make an appointment with us to view the works listed in the adjacent table.
It is also recommended for Europeans to use the online search system at KVK (Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog), in which all German and many European scholarly libraries list their available references. Sometimes the works are available for loan.
A list of further references about Australian art, which however are not yet in our reference collection, is also maintained and continually extended.
Literature in our Collection
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Hardy, Jane, Megaw, J.V.S. und Megaw, M. Ruth (Hg.): The Heritage of Namatjira. The Watercolourist of Central Australia, William Heinemann Australia, Port Melbourne 1992, ISBN 0855614439
Table of Contents ¦ Cover Text ¦ Book Review
Table of Contents
Gus Williams OAM: Foreword -ix-
J. V. S. Megaw: Preface -xi-
M. Ruth Megaw: A brief chronology -xv-
J. V. S. Megaw and M. Ruth Megaw: Introduction – The heritage of Namatjira and the Hermannsburg painters -1-
John Morton: Chapter one – Country, people, art: The Western Aranda 1870-1990 -23-
Robin Radford: Chapter two – Aspects of the social history of Hermannsburg -63-
Philip Jones: Chapter three – Namatjira: Traveller between two worlds -97-
Jane Hardy: Chapter four – Visitors to Hermannsburg: An essay on cross-cultural learning -137-
Tim Rouse: Chapter five – Paintings from memory: Art, economics and citizenship 1940-60 -177-
Danies Thomas: Chapter six – The Hermannsburg watercolourists: The view from the art museum -201-
Sylvia Kleinert: Chapter seven – The critical reaction to the Hermannsburg school -217
Ian Burn and Ann Stephen: Chapter eight – Namatjiras white mask: A partial interpretation -249-
Jenny Green: Chapter nine – Country in mind: The continuing tradition of landscape painting -283-
Roy Frost with Angela Tidmarsh: The Hermannsburg Watercolourists Biographies – 317-
M. Rauth Megaw: Sources -325-
Notes on the authors -329-
Index -343-
Cover Text
"The Heritage of Namatjira" is the first comprehensive survey of the massive output of watercolours by the Aranda (Arrernte) artists of Central Australia. Having as its genesis the first attempts in 1934 of Albert Namatjira to follow the example of European painters, notably the Victorian-born Rex Batterbee, the tradition of watercolour painting is till being maintained by the descendants of Albert and his contemporaries. Twelve contributors – anthropologists, historians, art critics and collectors – review the history and stylistic development of the Hermannsburg watercolourists since the Finke River Missions establishment in 1877, against a background of upheaval in Western Aranda culture. They chronicle the changing critical attitudes to the watercolours and their fluctuating fortunes in the art market, and assess the present role of the paintings within contemporary Aboriginal society. With its wealth of illustrations (many previously unpublished), biographical and bibliographical information, "The Heritage of Namatjira", which has been prepared with the full cooperation of the Aboriginal artists and communities concerned, will remain as a lasting tribute to more than a century of Western Aranda art and tradition.